A new year often means new beginnings and resolutions. For men in 2013, it is going to bring in a new era. While men used to be beholden to honey-do lists, this year men will embark on their own projects and use them as a time to exercise their masculinity. A couple of months ago, I wrote about men seeking and embracing small adventures to get in their "guy time." Expanding on that, men are now shepherding a new wave of homegrown projects earmarked as "guy only" pastimes.

At some point last year, you probably heard the troubling news that, according to a calendar the Maya created thousands of years ago, the world was going to end on Dec. 21. Well, in case you didn't get a chance to read the paper on the 22nd, the world did not end on the 21st. And in all fairness to the Maya, they didn't actually predict the end of the world on the 21st. That was just the date on which their calendar happened to reach the end of a 5,000+ year cycle ... which it then started all over ...